Having satisfied himself on these points and being thoroughly assured the herds were bred and raised correctly within the area prescribed as the proper source from which ponies eligible to race in Shanghai should be derived, Mr. Morriss proceeded to fill his requirements and brought his purchases down here, had them duly passed and measured and raced them with considerable success.
This success continued and attracted so much attention in racing circles, that, mirable dictu, a sentiment was created "io prevent them racing because they were faster than those Owned by his compeers and racing rivals. And this, regardless of. the fact that, according to authori tive information, agents of the very peoples who ultimately opposed him with such antagonism to his example, were also up north on the same spot, Where the supply of good ponies was found to exceed any demand y to come from Shanghai, his sentiment against better racing. to be derived from the use of better ponies, was fomented to such an extent that the calling of a meeting resulted, the outcome of which was the segregation of the better from the worse, to the tune of much florification of the latter at the expense of the former bringing about 3n amazingly contradictory state of affairs and dealing local racing a retrograde blow from which, not only has it failed to recover, but, if there y in the axiom "figures canis not unlikely to cause it eventually to "take the count,"
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